1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450945903321

Autore

McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, >

Titolo

The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-47800-3

1-280-02279-5

0-203-46038-3

0-203-45179-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Classificazione

11.01

Disciplina

200/.71

Soggetti

Religion - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: a dispatch from the provinces; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Genealogy of credibility; Form, content, and the treasury of devices; God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.; Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline; Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey; Techniques of dominance; The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics

Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor~Like small bumps on the back of the neck  ~: the problem of evil as something ordinary; The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion; Reworking the residue from our imperfect past; Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity; The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth; ~Religion~ and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop; ~Religion~ and the governable self; Afterword; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious



studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meaning.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796603803321

Autore

Tiran Denise

Titolo

Complementary therapies in maternity care : an evidence-based approach / / Denise Tiran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Singing Dragon, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

9781848193284

9780857012845 (e-book)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

362.1982

Soggetti

Maternal health services - Alternative treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.